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I think I feel my brain being stolen away from me . . . .

Here's a more modern one:

http://www.pref.aichi....1list/016/no016.html

Tony,

Norwich Hospital built additional patient buildings during the 1950s and 1960s. As they built the new ones they just shut down the old ones. You ought to have a combination of new and old buildings there, just like we have where I currently work. If our place was shut down today, in 20 years if you went through you wouldn't know for sure which buildings were used when, so you would also see a jumble of different designs and materials.

Lynne, dear, did you lose your pillow? Do you need a new one?
**RUNS out, gets Lynne a new pillow, Tylenol, Cumezekkyame, and a double-shot of Captains**

Hey Mr. Motts -- Just a bit of history from an old fart (73) who remembers several years of stock car racing here during the late '40s and early '50s. The track was clay and ran the complete perimeter of the stadium. Yeah, it was a tight track. but race cars in those days didn't go all that fast. They also held some open wheel races here, and at least two or three hell driver shows a year (local boy Jack Kochman was a favorite). I don't know what year staged the last race -- I moved out of the state in 1950 and have never been back since. But thanks for the memories -- I never thought I'd see the stadium again.

they're used to hold birds/chickens...and feed them I believe..

It looks as though someone was trying to escape by prying the bars and cages of the windows.

Small Solarium eh?
Or maybe I've been spoiled with bi ones for so long..=)

Sketch, I think I have that disease...
Winter depresses me, to some extent.
I don't think I'd hospitalize myself...
well at least not for that alone
=)

Lynne-The justice bringer of mental institutions..saving reputations everywhere!

I don't know what it is about these winter resorts but in the 80s I trained in a resort with the same mixed-era look, although it was in the midwest..

[Thump thump thump]

Donna,

Most of the folks who would be in an isolation room would not be "poking their fingers through the door looking for human contact and affection". To be in an isolation room means you had almost always been fairly out of control and needed to be somewhere to cool off where you couldn't hurt others. Another reason for being in an isolation room was to be in a "safe" place for someone who, in the days before antipsychotic medications, had to wrestle with their own inner demons during a frankly delusional episode. To someone in the throes of a such a psychotic episode, most other people are looked at as being dangerous or having bad intentions and these folks often don't want to be around anyone else because most, if not all, other people are seen in a very negative light.

People who were depressed or suicidal were NOT placed in these rooms.

Mini Danvers definitely.
Danvers...OH *sobs*

"In its desolate halls are lying,
Gold, blood-red and browned,
Drifted leaves of summer dying;
And the winds, above them sighing,
Turn them round and round,
Make a ghostly sound
As of footsteps failing, flying,
Voices through the chambers crying,
Of the haunted house."